FRED CALVIN WYATT
Fred
Calvin Wyatt is well known in agricultural circles of Lucas
and Clarke counties as superintendent of his father’s
extensive farming interests and in business circles of Derby
as a successful dealer in horses. He is a native son of this part of Iowa,
born in Franklin township, Clarke county, April 10, 1875, his
parents being Jacob B. and Dora E. (Wolverton) Wyatt, of whom
extended mention is found elsewhere in this work.
Fred Calvin Wyatt grew to manhood upon his father’s farm in Union township and acquired his primary education in the district schools, supplementing this by one and a half years at Simpson College at Indianola. For two years after beginning his independent career he was a clerk in Sutton’s store in Derby, after which he formed a partnership with Mr. Pollard under the firm name of Wyatt & Pollard. The partners conducted a large and profitable mercantile establishment in Derby for five years, after which Mr. Wolverton became connected with the concern and the name was changed to Wyatt & Wolverton. After a very successful business career Mr. Wyatt retired from the conduct of this mercantile concern and turned his attention to farming, operating an excellent tract of land in Union township for three years thereafter. At the end of that time, however, he returned to Derby, where his time is now fully occupied by his duties of superintending his father’s two hundred and forty acre farm in Franklin township, Clarke county, and his extensive interests as a horse dealer, he having through his energy, industry and sound judgment built up a profitable patronage along this line.
Fred Calvin Wyatt married Miss Ressa C. Johnson, who was born in Derby, Iowa, and who grew to womanhood in this city, attending the common schools and supplementing this by a course in the Conservatory of Music at Indianola. Extended mention is made of her parents on another page of this work in connection with the sketch of W. P. Wolverton. Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt have become the parents of three children: Marie, Dwight and Elizabeth, all of whom were born in Derby and are now attending public school in that city. Mr. Wyatt gives his political allegiance to the democratic party and was elected township clerk but could not qualify as he removed his residence from the township. While making his home in Clarke county he served as a member of the board of education and is at present connected with the Derby board. He and his wife are both representatives of pioneer families of Iowa and have an extensive acquaintance within the borders of Lucas county, where their many excellent traits of character are known and recognized.